O.C.G.A.
O.C.G.A.

O.C.G.A. § 15-1-6 (2019)

Court’s acts not invalid without clerk

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The acts of a court shall not lack validity for the want of a clerk. Whenever there is no clerk, or none to be had, or the clerk is incapable of discharging his duty, and any court performs that duty itself, its action as such is valid.

History

Orig. Code 1863, § 203; Code 1868, § 197; Code 1873, § 209; Code 1882, § 209; Civil Code 1895, § 4050;

Civil Code 1910, § 4647; Code 1933, § 24-109.

Annotations

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Justice court (now magistrate court) had no clerk created by law.

Park v. Callaway, 128 Ga. 119, 57 S.E. 229 (1907).

RESEARCH REFERENCES Am. Jur. 2d. - 20 Am. Jur. 2d, Courts, § 1 et seq.